You can teach an old dog new tricks. I never knew about this and used the PUSH approach below.
On Tue, 2 Sep 2025 20:10:29 +1000 Peter Morrison <0000160d7dfdc207-dmarc-requ...@listserv.uga.edu> wrote: :>Hello, :> :> Has anyone else used (0) at the end of an RX (or RXY) instruction to suppress the assembler's alignment check? :> :> For Example: :> :> DC X'00' force next field to be unaligned :> X_UNAL DC AL4(0) Declare an unaligned fullword :> :> L R0,X_UNAL gets a warning :> L R0,X_UNAL(0) same generated code (ix reg is 0) but no warning :> :> If so, where is it documented? (this is easier than a <PUSH ACONTROL/ACONTROL NOALIGN/instr/POP ACONTROL> sequence (and takes no extra lines)) :> :>Peter Morrison -- Binyamin Dissen <bdis...@dissensoftware.com> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel
